Edwin Hubbell Chapin Quotes
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Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I'm playing.
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How we think about terrorism has to be defined and specific enough that it doesn't lead us to think that any horrible actions that take place around the world that are motivated in part by an extremist Islamic ideology is a direct threat to us or something that we have to wade into.
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I'm always happy when I'm surrounded by water, I think I'm a Mermaid or I was a mermaid. The ocean makes me feel really small and it makes me put my whole life into perspective… it humbles you and makes you feel almost like you’ve been baptized. I feel born again when I get out of the ocean.
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At the very smallest wheel of our reasoning it is possible for a handful of questions to break the bank of our answers.
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I like to walk into a house and go, 'Rip up the brown shag carpet and open up that wall with some French doors.'
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We also must pull from our highest ideals of justice and protect against those ills that destabilized our economy - like predatory lending, over-leveraged financial institutions and the unchecked avarice of the past that trumped fairness and common sense. Our platform calls for significant cuts in federal spending.
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Trade votes in the US Congress are never really easy things.
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I take every possible side.
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As a writer, my homeland is the desk where I work.
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Metaphysics is universal and is exclusively concerned with primary substance. ... And here we will have the science to study that which is, both in its essence and in the properties which it has.
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He's just a prolific scorer. He is great at hitting runners in the lane and he has great range on his jump shot. And because you have to worry about some of their other players, it sets up very nicely for him.
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Your master is he who controls that on which you have set your heart or wish to avoid.
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The emotional state that leads to achievements resembles that of a worshiper or the lover.
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There's only one story, the story of your life.
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Life is going forth; death is returning home.
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Life is moral responsibility.
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Defer not till to-morrow to be wise, To-morrow's Sun to thee may never rise; Or should to-morrow chance to cheer thy sight With her enlivening and unlook'd for light, How grateful will appear her dawning rays! As favours unexpected doubly please.
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Life is a crucible. We are thrown into it and tried.
